Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Marjane Satrapi

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Plutarch

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Richard Wilbur

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

You know what's strange? A lot of men don't dream in color. Women will dream in color more than men.

Sylvia Browne

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Sue Grafton

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Samuel Richardson

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Taylor Caldwell

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

Tina Fey

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Thomas a Kempis